This is my biggest pet peeve! My experience is that some parents do that for two reasons. 1) It will stop the kids from nagging you to let them stay home, and if they're really sick the nurse will call anyway and 2) it's easier to tell your boss you got a call from the nurse and you have to go get your sick child, rather than calling out for the entire day.

Yes, I got the "well I don't want to get sick on my vacation" lecture today. Again. Like it's my fault the kid has a cough but his lungs are fine, no fever, no sore throat, and Mom had already given him cough medicine. So I told them that working in an elementary school is a cesspool of germs 'cause there's over 900 kids here blah blah blah story". Again. What the heck were you thinking when you decided to be a teacher? That you'd been teaching classes in a clean room, surrounded by children in hazmat suits? If you're so worried about germs, tell your classes to wash their hands, cough into their elbows and get on with teaching. Don't you go to the grocery store/mall/church/or anywhere in public?

I had a student come in after "vomiting" in lunch AKA "ate too fast and started coughing up the food in his mouth." No fever, tolerated water and crackers just fine in my office. His teacher came into my office right as I was sending him back to lunch.
Teacher- Please don't tell me you're sending him back.
Tomato- Yes, he is fine to stay in school. Send him back if he complains of any pain or nausea.
Teacher- He is sick.
Tomato- No he's not. I checked.
Teacher- He vomited.
Tomato- I am aware.
Teacher- I don't want to get sick.

I wanted to go "Oh gosh, you don't? I thought you wanted to get sick! That's why I was sending him! Thanks for letting me know, most people love getting sick. That's why I was confused."

I had a teacher complain that her kg kids were always sick, which was making her sick. Umm, you work in an elementary school cesspool of germs! Did you not know that before you became a teacher? Geesh, wash your hands and stop complaining to me about it!

And truly, this is all I needed to hear. I think just constantly being spoken to like these lice cases are my fault is getting to me. I swear, some of these parents act like all of their responsibility for these kids goes out the door while they are at school. New flash: they are yours, 24/7. You are accountable for their "wellbeing" all the time!

Wait, you mean you don't keep a jar full of the little critters in your desk to sprinkle on unsuspecting innocents? C'mon, admit it, you do, right? It's our dirty little school nurse secret!

This is not feasible in a school environment. And catering to a small handful of parents will only worsen the problem.

For those who have not/are not working as a nurse in a school, it is the equivalent of calling a family member for every interaction with your patient.

701am: Hey Family Member! Wanted to call and let you know that I just got report on Patient and he is doing fine.
715: Hi again, Family Member. Just calling to let you know that Patient was having some pain, so I gave him PRN pain medication.
800: Hi Family Member. Following up to let you know that Patient said his pain was relieved by the pain medication. Talk to you soon!
823- Hey, Family Member! Wanted to let you know that the constipation that Patient was complaining about yesterday has resolved in stupendous, blow out fashion.
855- Hi again Family Member. About to do a dressing change on Patient's surgical site, I'll call you to let you know how it goes!

ECT AD NAUSEUM!!

And, having to call 3 different phone numbers for Family Member, leaving messages and then trying the 3 other numbers they gave you....

Pet Peeves from the school nurse: Not saying "Thank you"
-Walking into my office demanding things-I have a 4th grader that I've trying to retrain since I started here, he walks in and yells what he wants "Ice pack" "bandaid" whatever, makes me crazy-
-Parents that repeatedly send their kids to school ridiculously ill-once I can forgive, sometimes you can't get that last minute sitter, but a heads up would be nice!-
-Parents that berate the nurse because their special snowflake has head lice, yep it's totally my fault; in fact I sprinkled them on their head just to inconvenience you!
-Teachers who constantly question my nursing judgement or make diagnosis- snowflake coughs r/t allergies and walks in saying "My teacher said that I have pneumonia"

The release of what and how much we know following these sort of events is managed by the intelligence community, you seem to be arguing she should have disregarded their decisions about what information was going to be released and when. Believe it or not, at any given time there are various people in the government who know of information that isn't freely dispersed to the media, this isn't a new thing.

I haven't forgotten her e-mail to Chelsea, however since the purpose of abiding by the information the intelligence community has chosen to release is to keep the groups or individuals we are investigating from knowing what we know at that time I'm not sure why you think it makes a difference that she told her daughter a more candid explanation.

Because she lied straight to the victim's mother, that's why! Chelsea had more of a right to know the truth than the mother? Really?